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SUNBURY – Mammograms aren’t fun for women, but they can save their lives. A recent study shows 40 percent of women decline going for a mammogram. The biggest reason is fearing the worst.
Dr. John Turner joined Thursday’s On The Mark program with a different view, “I think that’s probably a little insulting to women because women I know are more than capable of whatever fear that may be associated with a mammogram. Much more so than handling an undiagnosed breast cancer. They confirmed that they set a 15 percent lower death rate from breast cancer in women screened between the ages of 40 and 50.”
Dr. Kenneth Jusko also joined Thursday’s On the Mark program and says mammograms are the best way to detect what may or may not be wrong, “There maybe a tiny cancer that we still cannot see and then you wait two years and now it’s a lot larger or a lot more difficult surgery or a surgery that has to be a mastectomy instead of a lumpectomy.”
You can hear more from Dr. Turner and Dr. Jusko online at wkok.com. (Matt Catrillo)